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Sickening crime by husbands isn’t wife-sharing, it’s rape arising from toxic masculinity

Three feminist observations on Singapore’s latest sexual violence saga are worth internalising.

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By drugging and assaulting their wives, the perpetrators also cultivated “a fantasy of female ignorance, helplessness and indignity”.

By drugging and assaulting their wives, the perpetrators also cultivated “a fantasy of female ignorance, helplessness and indignity”.

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News of last Friday’s sentencing of J, the leader of an

abhorrent sexual violence ring

involving at least six perpetrators and four survivors, dredged up the revulsion I felt when I first read about the case in 2022. 

J and a group of other men conspired over eight years to methodically

drug, rape and record their assault

of the women in their lives, even distributing the footage online.

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